Posted On 2016-06-15 In Covenant solidarity

Pope’s pain and horror over the Orlando massacre

MASACRE IN ORLANDO – COVENANT SOLIDARITY •

“The terrible massacre that has taken place in Orlando, with its dreadfully high number of innocent victims, has caused in Pope Francis, and in all of us, the deepest feelings of horror and condemnation, of pain and turmoil before this new manifestation of homicidal folly and senseless hatred,” was the statement of the Holy See Press Office Director, Fr. Federico Lombardi SJ, released on 12 June, following the attack on a nightclub in Orlando in the United States, in which 53 people died and more than 50 were injured, some of them seriously.

“Pope Francis” says the statement by the Vatican spokesperson, “joins the families of the victims and all of the injured in prayer and in compassion. Sharing in their indescribable suffering he entrusts them to the Lord so they may find comfort. We all hope that ways may be found, as soon as possible, to effectively identify and contrast the causes of such terrible and absurd violence which so deeply upsets the desire for peace of the American people and of the whole of humanity.

(English translation by Radio Vatican)

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